Events

December 8, 2008, 1:00 PM: Meeting in Library 210 (B.I. Room) of Dean and involved parties in the approval and management of room reservations via the library calendar. This site contains the question points raised prior to and during the meeting.

Dean's Review and policy finalization (to be scheduled as of 1/22/2009)

Authoring using Adobe Contribute ®: a brief review

Adobe Contribute is the name of a web page authoring program. You can use its simple features to create, change, delete, and organize web pages in your parts of the site http://library.csu.edu/.

You can not easily interfere with other users. Errors can be rolled back. In any case, the changes are staged for the web site and not installed until evening. If there is a real need, the changes can be deleted or installed immediately. The system is flexible.

Adobe Contribute must be installed on a workstation. There are seven installed in the library. The instructions below apply to the version of Contribute used in the Adobe Creative Suite CS5. Other workstations may have CS3 or CS4.

Help, Tutorials, and Other Documentation

Use one of the seven workstations above. These have been configured with Adobe Contribute CS5.

You will have been supplied with passwords and usernames for authoring, editing, or publishing. The Connection Key will establish your portion of the web site with its resources and tools. You can obtain the key below by using or saving this file. There is great flexibility. You must keep these authentication items private and safe, or your portion of the web site may be compromised.

You will be asked to supply a correct connection password. Your director or the Digital Initiatives Librarian will have provided this password. You should never share this password. If it should become known to others, notify the Digital Initiatives Librarian immediately. Anyone with this password can change or deface your site using Contribute.

This link can also be used to download and store your key on a removable device, as an email attachment, etc.

Direct your browser to open this file with Contribute CS5 (default) if prompted

Enter the Contribute startup password to begin work with Contribute.

When prompted, enter the connection key password. You may have been notified of a changing connection; this is normal. Accept the change.

From the many available activities, choose Edit Page.

Three editable regions on the internal template are available for change (adds, changes, deletes).

Pagetitle

Localmenu

Content

When done, choose one of

Publish

Send

Save for Later

Discard Draft

Then use the File menu or CTRL-Q to Exit

If you wish to continue later and are unready to publish, choose Save for Later and select a useful option. You will not be able directly to continue until you have finished and published, finished and sent for review or approval, or discarded your changes.

Deployment

Deployment Issues: Are you aware?

Those unaware of the basis for planning web development probably will, like many, have opinions such as “I could have done better.” or “I like XYZ site better.”
Other library sites, of which we have examined many, are here.
Issues with the site should be detailed at the New Site Problem Report. Any email or verbal discussions regarding the new web site will be posted here with attributions and dates so that all members of the library have an opportunity to be aware of issues and respond knowledgeably.

Click here and add information at the bottom of the page to describe needs or problems with the new web site.

Authoring Checklist

Create text, images, audio files, Etc. Use no markup other than semantic markup. No bold, italic, tables or markup other than headings (headers), paragraphs, and numbered or bullet lists.

Request Adobe Contribute authoring for the site(s) you publish.

Deploy material using the Contribute Authoring and publishing system, or by sending the semantically-marked text to wgraham@csu.edu via email as an MS Word (or equivalent) file. The file will be converted to a TXT file.

Examine the deployed page on http://libtest.csu.edu for acceptability with your editor and with Tarshel Beards

Development

Errors, suggestions and changes to the new web site

Please use the wiki page at New Site Problem Report to enter any sort of suggestion or problem report. Remember the site at libnext is undergoing change constantly. Changes are posted daily. Do not email issues; use the wiki page.